Acharya Prashant explains that awareness is not a goal to be achieved or a problem to be solved, but an innate and inviolable state that already exists. He clarifies that one does not 'become' aware; rather, one must 'unbecome' unaware. This assumed unawareness is described as a shroud or a cloud over the innate core that has no actual substance or factual basis. Awareness is the capacity to understand that remains even in the most challenging situations, and it is something that remains unwounded and untouchable regardless of physical or mental suffering. It is the intrinsic nature that presides over all knowledge and consciousness. He distinguishes between knowledge and awareness, noting that while knowledge is small, borrowed, and often leads to a lack of peace, awareness is total, certain, and independent of civilization or the products of the mind. He uses the example of a tribal person knowing love without formal definitions to illustrate that awareness is innate. Acharya Prashant further explains that while there are levels of consciousness, there are no levels of awareness. Awareness is absolute and does not depend on the mind's acknowledgment, though the mind suffers when it fails to surrender to it. He concludes by stating that beings do not possess awareness; rather, all beings and the world itself exist within awareness, as they are merely images within the changing states of consciousness.